Competence aims:

• ability to classify different approaches to transformation and development from a gender perspective
• ability to analyze transnational subject matter and global phenomena in an interdisciplinary framework in connection with gender relations and processes of transformation
• development of a critical perspective concerning terminology and phenomena
• comprehension of complex processes of societal-cultural, economic and political transformation in Latin America from a theory-led gender perspective
• ability to analyze processes of social and cultural transformation in connection with symbolic processes of discursive and notional construction from a gender perspective

Learning content:

• acquirement of the basic terminology of research on transformation and development in connection with gender studies as well as the examination of this terminology
• diachronic focus on the formation of the women’s movement and feminist and queer movements and their interventions in processes of political and societal transformation in Latin America
• consideration of aspects of (sustainable) economic and ecological development and alternative postcolonial concepts of transformation and development
• examination of transnational processes for their gender dimension

critical analysis of the connections between regional and local developmental policies and the growing feminization of poverty and migration